Okay, nevermind that thing I mentioned about filler episodes and bigger scripts. This is far from filler and it’s beaten the record, of course, those 90 lines of insert song lyrics helped quite a bit, so maybe it doesn’t really count. And speaking of inserts, Duskmon’s theme “Blader” is pretty cool and stuff.

Oh yeah, Tamers v2’s are up to episode 19. Which doesn’t mean much since it’s actually just 1, 16, 17, 18 and 19, but well. There would be more up but lolexams.

I’ve started putting up the new encodes at the Tamers page, they’re the ones marked “v2” (except for episode 26, that one will be v3). For now only 1 and 16 are up, the rest will be as soon as the encodes are done. And likewise, 39 will be released when we get the DVD that contains it, since the script is already complete. This should be the very final version (lol how many times have I said that now) of the files unless something went very wrong and it slipped past my barely existent QC, since you can’t improve much past encoding straight from DVD.

Besides the obviously higher quality encodes (MKV, AVI – note that the new AVI-Xvid encode looks better than the old MKV-H264 one at the same size, which is kind of amazing), we also made some minor changes to the scripts, mainly styling, some minor timing tweaks, and edited insert song translations to make them consistent with later episodes. Also, I’m not uploading the scripts anymore, since the new versions aren’t compatible with the old Xvid raws unless the timing is shifted, and I’m not going to bother. Though if someone still wants them for whatever reason, I have no problem providing them.

Finally, for a funfact: a while ago (back when I used LJ) someone complained about our use of the creditless OP, mentioning that the original OP in the first 3 episodes starts slightly different (black background instead of blue, and series logo is in the foreground instead of background) and that we weren’t keeping that by using the textless OP. Well, Puto went out of his way to perfectly recreate the original sequence for the first 3 episodes, through some insane editing that I wouldn’t even think of doing. So, yeah.

WordPress is messing around with links to certain sites such as filesharing ones, and replacing them with links to some page in their terms of use. Somehow they seem to be back to normal now, but if they stop working again, that’s the reason. If it happens again I’ll just work around it.

I love how filler episodes have the biggest scripts. At least this one wasn’t nearly as bad as the hamburgers one. =P

In other news, we’re getting our hands on some DVD ISOs of Tamers, and since the quality gain over using the old Xvid raws is worth it, we’ll wait until the DVDs with the last episodes are up and encode directly from those for the next releases. We also have plans to re-encode the whole series for the final batch.